Armenian Immigrant Narrative

“I’m going to have 11 more” was my grandmother’s response to the doctor, after she almost died giving birth to her first child. The doctor recommended that she have no more children, but she refused to abandon her original wedding promise of raising 12 children. When my dad was born, he and his mother, my grandmother, almost died. If my grandmother originally listened to the doctor after giving birth to her first child, if she died giving birth to any of her other children, or if my father died at birth, I would not be here writing this today. My grandmother lived a remarkable life. Not only did she successfully give birth to 12 children, but she also held daycares and welcomed more children into her home. I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandmother when she came to live with us. She lived an extraordinary life and without her, I would not be alive today.

The Armenian Genocide was one of the worst planned killings in history taking over one and half million lives. First having disputes with the Turkish government in 1894, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens. This is also known as the Armenian Holocaust. Being part of a religious minority in the region the Armenian people were seen as inferior to the Muslims and having very few political and legal rights. Issues increased during World War One when Ottoman religious authorities began a holy war against all christians expect their allies. Turkish military leaders began to think if the Allies won that the Armenians would turn and fight for them. As the war continued

The Armenian genocide is one of the most underrated genocides in history. The lack of acknowledgment of this genocide has prevented those the tragedy affected from receiving the proper resolution that should have been provided to them. This paper will discuss what exactly happened during this period of time, reasons for the discrimination that the Armenian people experienced, the impact on the country, and how globally we should have prevented it. By understanding fully what went wrong in this historic tragedy it can help prevent future disasters from occurring or escalating further.

In the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish government put into motion a plan to murder and massacre several Armenians that lived in the Ottoman Empire. One of the main reason the genocide began was because the Armenians were asking for more equal rights. The Armenian Genocide was not necessary.At the time of the massacre.there were about 2 million Armenian’s in the Ottoman empire. By the time the massacre ended, there were about 1.5 million Armenians dead, many were also removed from the country. The Armenians were discriminated by the Ottoman, many Armenians began to ask for equal rights because of the tend toward constitutional governments in Europe. There was a decline of power in the ottoman empire and major military losses during WWI, which

The Armenian Genocide was a terrible atrocity that was committed against the Armenian people. During the time the genocide took place and afterwards, there had been people who had witnessed the tragedy that befell the Armenians and wrote poems in order to show the world what had truly happened to their people, and to get us, the readers, the emphasize with them as well. Some poets that highlighted the atrocious acts that happened during the Armenian genocide were Siamanto who wrote “The Dance” and Vahan Tekeyan who wrote “Dream” and “The Country of Dust.”

The world becomes a better place when there is humanity. Humanity exists when there are people who have the desire to give, instead of take. When these generous people “give” without the expectation of “taking” back, the world automatically offers them the better. There was poverty in all the villages of Armenia. Armenian Christians were continuously under attacks. The attacks against Christian Armenians occurred throughout the year 1915. This is the age that is well known for the Armenian Genocide, which was carried out by the Ottoman Turks. Escaping the Ottoman forces, my grandmother, Sosek Boghosian, found herself as a refuge in Iraq. Horrific acts continued to be committed to my grandmother’s descendants.

The Armenian genocide has several main causes: European meddling in Ottoman internal affairs, nationalism, economic jealousy, and Armenian involvement in the Russian war effort. Though, a lot of the causes are interrelated. For example, nationalism and European meddling go hand in hand. What exactly was the Armenian genocide? Well, the Armenian genocide was a state orchestrated machine of mass-murder and rape of the Armenian people, and several other ethnic groups, of the Ottoman Empire 1915-1923. The Armenians were one of many ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, and they had lived in eastern Asia Minor for around three thousand years prior to the atrocity .

I'm not as fascinated on topics of Genocide as i am on cultures and political relations.My interest in this particular topic rose when i remember the commemoration of the Armenian genocide took place and there was a debate on the importance of it being claimed as such or let it be ignored. I was always to certain extent intrigued by how as a student i was taught about the Holocaust and Rwanda when speaking about genocide but Armenia was ignored .Last year my friend asked about a topic for her extended essay involving a genocide which wasn't the holocaust, I mentioned Armenia and at first she didn't know what i was talking about since it wasn't common knowledge; now she is writing her extended essay on this topic.I like to link the authoritative

I will begin with The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History written in 2011 by Raymond Kevorkian. Kevorkian is a French-Armenian Professor who works as a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII. This book is one of the first to make full use of the archives at the Nubarian Library in Paris. This is a library dedicated to Armenian History and I will be using this book bibliography to find important primary sources. In his book, Kevorkian talks about the relationship between the Young Turks and the Armenians leading up to and during the genocide. This will be important for me to look at to see the evolution of each group's national identity in relation to the other. Another source I am excited to be working with is Consequences of Denial:

An event where the plot differs from the story is when the beast took Belle to visit her childhood place in Paris through the use of the magic map book. The flashback of the plaque in that moment is a clear representation of a portion of the story that was out of chronological sequence. The use of flashback unfolds the mystery of what happened to Belle’s mother during the time when she was still a baby. The plot flashes back to the time of the bubonic plaque where we see Belle’s mother dying and her father had no choice but to take her and leave before the plaque kills them. This flashback of Belle’s childhood past was effective in allowing the audience to come to a realization of the secret that her father was keeping from her. Had the plot

Franz Liszt met Niccolo Paganini in March of 1831. After he the long illness and depression that overtook him he became interested in his career as a virtuoso once again and left the idea of becoming a priest. He was so interested in Paganini’s work that he decided to use some of Paganini’s ideas in his piano music. Paganini didn’t use characteristic polyphonic. The compositions lacked consonant melody and harmony.

Niccolo Paganini was born October 27, 1782. He was born in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. Paganini was the third child out of six of Antonio and Teresa. When he was five he started playing the Mandolin with his father. By the game of 7 he had started playing the violin. He was recognized quickly for his musical talents. He then earned many scholarships for violin lessons. Before he was 12 years old he had his first public performance was at a church on May 26, 1794. He had a very reckless lifestyle. there were many sketchy stories about him. He never confirmed or denied if any of them happened and kept his lifestyle mysterious. When he was around 19 years old he was already used to touring with

The Armenian diaspora, about 10 million, is three times the population of Armenia, with migrants and their children scattered across Russia, United States, UK, Lebanon and Australia. As with many migrations, Armenians have often thrived in their accepted homelands, contributing to business, sport, and cultural and political life.

French government was less committed to the Armenian national cause and did not contribute a lot to help the Armenians. Although, French did play few humanitarian roles, such as when Russian authorities requested the French government to subsidize the relief work for Armenian refugees in Aleppo, then French made the payment in secret to avoid the attention of CUP (Bloxham 2005, 139). French had missionaries in the Ottoman Empire that were trying to provide aid to Armenians, but failed to do so because violence was rapidly increasing and extreme famine that resulted into people dying of starvation. French requested the British to provide food aid, but British refused indirectly and said that Entente Allies are simply being blackmailed to remedy

Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians? This question sets the tone, of the overt “events ”of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, which begs the question, how can these “events” be recognize by both, the Armenian Republic and the Turkish State; but, does not create a discourse to clearly answer what transpired? Regardless of the label used, the result was destruction of virtually every Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after the war. What was left of the country transitioned into the modern-day Republic of Turkey, while a community left devastated, that before was not a target. This sudden shift from fellow brethren to enemy status, is perplexing, was this shift due to the call for modernization, which